Synonyms for float
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1. floatverb

   To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.

   Synonyms:
   initial public offering

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1. float

   Synonyms:
   swim, spread, prevail

   Antonyms:
   sink, drown, die, founder, vanish

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1. floatnoun

   the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   go under, go down, sink, settle

2. floatnoun

   the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   go down, go under, sink, settle

3. ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, floatnoun

   a drink with ice cream floating in it

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   go down, go under, settle, sink

4. floatnoun

   an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   settle, go down, go under, sink

5. float, plasterer's floatnoun

   a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   settle, sink, go under, go down

6. floatnoun

   something that floats on the surface of water

   Synonyms:
   plasterer's float, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, air bladder, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   sink, go down, go under, settle

7. air bladder, swim bladder, floatverb

   an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

   Synonyms:
   air bladder, ice-cream soda, ice-cream float, plasterer's float, swim bladder

   Antonyms:
   sink, settle, go under, go down

8. float, drift, be adrift, blowverb

   be in motion due to some air or water current

   "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

   Synonyms:
   swash, rove, vagabond, botch, ramble, bungle, muck up, range, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, stray, blow, tout, burn out, screw up, suck, gasconade, roll, fumble, flub, fellate, cast, ball up, err, freewheel, bollocks, wander, shoot a line, mess up, shove off, waste, louse up, bollocks up, gas, bollix, bluster, vaunt, swan, muff, tramp, blow out, swim, foul up, boast, fluff, drift, bobble, go down on, be adrift, shove along, bollix up, squander, spoil, roam, bodge

   Antonyms:
   go under, sink, go down, settle

9. float, swimverb

   be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

   Synonyms:
   be adrift, drift, blow, drown, swim

   Antonyms:
   go down, go under, sink, settle

10. floatverb

    set afloat

    "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    go under, go down, settle, sink

11. floatverb

    circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with

    "The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    settle, go down, sink, go under

12. floatverb

    move lightly, as if suspended

    "The dancer floated across the stage"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    go down, go under, settle, sink

13. floatverb

    put into the water

    "float a ship"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    go down, settle, go under, sink

14. floatverb

    make the surface of level or smooth

    "float the plaster"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    sink, settle, go under, go down

15. floatverb

    allow (currencies) to fluctuate

    "The government floated the ruble for a few months"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    settle, go under, go down, sink

16. floatverb

    convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

    "float data"

    Synonyms:
    be adrift, drift, blow, swim

    Antonyms:
    sink, go down, settle, go under

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1. • Artifact
   • Convert
   • Display
   • Drink
   • Hand Tool
   • Launch
   • Masonry
   • Move
   • Smooth
   • Stock
   • Test
   • Time Interval
   • Transport
   • Travel
   • Value

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1. floatverb

   Synonyms:
   swim, WAFT, be buoyed up

2. floatverb

   Synonyms:
   buoy up, bear up, keep afloat, bear on the surface

3. floatnoun

   Synonyms:
   raft, floating mass

4. floatnoun

   Synonyms:
   buoy

5. floatnoun

   Synonyms:
   float-board

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1. floatnoun

   Synonyms:
   raft, buoy

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1. List of paraphrases for "float":

   floater, floats, char, fleet, profiler, chariot, tank, jitter, floatation, flotation

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How to use float in a sentence?

1. Tom Davis:

   Other Republicans were the disruptive group. At this point, even getting into that mess, whoever is disruptive pays a price at the polls. i don't think you want to let this charge float out there, because health care is the one bill that is hurting them this year.

2. Kathleen Smith:

   It's amazing what [ Uber has ] built, but they are still not done doing it. They've been subsidizing the business, the boat doesn't float on its own bottom.

3. Elon Musk:

   I don’t think it’s that hard honestly, just float around, it’s not that hard to float around.

4. Eric Johnson:

   Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee; I got Parkinson’s, it ain’t got me.

5. Tatiana Orlova:

   They tried to switch to a floating foreign exchange regime and it hasn't worked, will they admit that the float has failed and go back to the peg? The main task ... will be to restore credibility of the central bank.